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Buprestis (a name in use a century before Aristotle), Cicindela, 

 Dytiscus (corrected to Dyticus by Geoffroy), Cerambyx, Chry- 

 somela, Cassida, Coccinella, Cantharis, Tenebrto, Mordella, 

 Staphylinus, Necydalis, and Meloe. The names still credited 

 to Geoffroy are: Platycerus, Ptilinus, Copris, Anthrenus, 

 Lampyris, Omalisus, Hydrophilus, Melolontha, Pr tonus, Luperus, 

 Cryptocephalus , Crioceris, Altica (no apparent reason for the 

 accepted spelling Haltica), Galleruca, Mylabris, Bostrichus, 

 Clerus (u^ed by Aristotle), Anthribus, Scolytus, Anaspis, Dia- 

 peris, Pyrochroa, Notoxus, Cerocoma. The remainder, names 

 invented by Geoffroy and credited to others who used them for 

 the first time after 1766: Byrrhus Linn., Cistela Fabr. (applied 

 to Byrrhidae), Peltis Illiger (included the genus Silpha), Cucujus 

 Fabr. (applied to Buprestids), Bruchus Linn, (applied to Ptinids), 

 Gyrinus Linn., Leptura Serv., Rhinomacer Fabr. (equals the 

 present Attelabus. Attelabus, as Geoffroy used the word, covered 

 Hister), and Tritoma Fabr. 



Geoffroy 's work consisted of 1,215 quarto pages and de- 

 pended upon public support. This was not lacking for there 

 came two succeeding editions. Nevertheless it was twenty years 

 before what might be called a school existed, and that by the 

 friendship of a younger generation — notably Fourcroy, Olivier 

 and Latreille — with the elderly master. The greatest work of 

 Fabricius followed Geoffroy by about eleven years. Olivier 

 reached his prime about fourteen years later still. Another 

 period of not less than twelve years elapsed before Latreille 

 reached his zenith, doubling and more the genera of beetles. 

 Fourcroy, Professor of Chemistry, published his own catalogue 

 of beetles found around Paris in 1785. It added nearly 300 new 

 species. Some being cosmopolitan, his name appears in the 

 American check-list. 



A. G. Olivier, a professor of zoology, depended, like his two 

 predecessors, on public support for his great work — devoted to 

 beetles alone — the six volumes of text and two of plates of which 

 were published from 1789 to 1808. This work increased the 

 coleopterous genera to 100. Latreille's Natural History was 

 published in fourteen volumes from 1802 to 1805. This again 

 miiltiplied genera. For example, Scarabaeus was divided by 



